“Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.”

The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.

If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.

If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.

If I really believe all lives have equal value, and if I use contraceptives, which I do, and if I’m counselling my son and my two daughters to use them, how am I not serving the women who don’t have access to the contraceptives they need?

When we better understand the realities of these women’s lives, we are able to design and deliver solutions that are more useful to them.

One life is worth no more or less than any other.

My undergraduate work was in computer science and economics. It just happened to be at that time when 34 percent of computer-science majors were women. We didn’t realize it was at the peak at the time.

That’s universal – we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what’s not universal is our ability to provide every good thing.

Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in.

Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.

Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.

You can have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can’t get her to come and get them then they won’t work.

It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.

Housework comes first, so girls often fall behind in school. Global statistics show that it’s increasingly girls, not boys, who don’t know how to read.

All lives have an equal value.

Any social or cultural change has to be made openly and with people agreeing. You don’t get there by just pushing an outsider’s point of view.

The more detailed the plan, the easier the trip.

There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.

Plan for what it is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small.

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

A paranoid man makes paranoid plans.

Really important meetings are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other.